Laying shingles



May 18 1926. 1,584,887

I ca. NYHOLM LAYI NG SHINGLES Filed. June 28, 1924 /A//ENTOR Gu/af/VyU/m ,4 TTORNEY Penea May s, 1926.

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Apiicatibn fii-ea June as, 1924. seria No. '722,910.

The invention is the placing of double yshingles'on a roof or the likewith the butt of the upper shingle* extending `beyond the butt of thelower shingle so that the lower I shingle will be protected from theweather and also so that water dripping ;from 'one shingle to anotherwill strike the lower shingle a short distance from the buttV of theshingle above it. The object of the. invention is toeprovide a -shingleroof that will wear indefinitely.

Another objectof the invention is to provide a means for laying'shingles so that there will be a shingle foundation to the roof whichwill be protected by other shingles at the surface. L

And a further object of the invention is to provide a means fortdivertingthe drip -from one shingle on a roof to another so that itvWill be spread over the surface of the shingles; v

With these ends in view the invention enbodies the placing of doubleshingles on'the.

roof and the extending of the butts of the upper shingles beyond thebutts of the lower shingles. Other features' and advantages of theinvention, will be s een from the following description of the inventiontaken in connection with the drawing, wherein a The drawing illustratesa section o'f a .roof with the shingles placedthereon. In the drawings Ihave indicated the shingles by the numeral l, the butts of the uppershingles by the 'numeral 2, and the butts of the lower shingles by thenumeral 3.

lIt will be observed that 'the first row ofshingles maybe laid doublewith the butts flush and then an additional -.row placed upon them withthe butts extending beyond 40 the butts of the former shingles as shownin the drawing. The next row may be placed upon the first row' in theusual manner and then -anf additional row placed upon this row with thebutts of the shingles of the addition'al row extending beyond the buttsof the shingles of the lower row. The remaining rowsjmay be placed inthe same manner until the entire roof is covered. It will be observedthat it will be possible to lay the '50 shingles with more space to theweather so that it will not require many more shingles 4 to layf theroof in this manner-than in the usual manner.

It will also be observed that the shingles may held on the roof in theusual manner or may be held by continuous straps between them asindicated in dotted lines and by the numeral 4,\inwhich case the nailswould be placed through the strips between the shingles. I

The shingles referred to are wood cedar shingles, however, it isunderstood that they may be made of anysuitable material.

Having thus fully described the invention, what I claim as new anddesire .to 'secure by Letters Patent, is

A roof comprising two `rows of shingles in each course thereof, theshingles of the upper row being extended vat their lower edges tooverlie the lower edges of the shingles of the corresponding bottom row,to protect the lower shingles from the weather and to provide a `dripextension.

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